A little diversion…

Little being the operative… When I did my big 15mm fantasy project during lockdown I painted lots of 15mm Fantasy… Most was ‘character’ stuff that could be used in skirmish type games (e.g. Frostgrave) but I also painted quite a few figures as largish warbands. One of these was dwarves. At one of the local Durham shows I’d seen some really cute 15mm dwarves from Four A Miniatures. I picked up a few but hadn’t done much with them. Although Four A still have a Facebook presence the owner (Andy Coleman) has never really got them in full production so what I have I think came from master moulds. But I picked up a few more direct and ended up with a few painted.

Time moved on and then Midgard arrived. I figured I could rebase some of the larger contingents I had a make up usable fantasy armies. I started with the dwarves and also did a few bases of Gnolls.

What I had left was odd figures that wouldn’t work for Midgard bases. So contacted Andy Coleman and he was able to supply enough figures to make up proper bases. So sorting these out I laid them all out ready… And then did nothing for over a year…

Having reached a little lull in all the 18th century stuff I decided a tidy up was in order and seeing all the stuff there I couldn’t face just dumping it in a box to forget about so thought it was worth ploughing on and finishing. So this was what I had…

There are some ropey Irregular mounted dwarves which if I replace the spears may be usable. Other odds and ends are Scibor dwarves for command and heroes. Very nice but not cheap. But the gun is nice.

You can see at the back the three almost completed bases and I realised painting twelve figures would enable me to complete them. So that was stage one…

And finishing these gave me three more bases…

I’ve now started work on twelve more crossbows and trying to sort a magic user as I don’t want to have to buy a resin one… So I’m hoping in a week or so I’ll have a full Midgard army! I do have other 15mm fantasy I could rebase and produce an opposing force… And maybe paint a few more…